British Film Forever - Sauce, Satire and Silliness: The Story of British Comedy

Series examining the history of British film. Britain may have donated stars like Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel to Hollywood but, much like our sense of humour, British comedy feature films have rarely travelled well. The surrealist nonsense of Monty Python in the 70s and 80s perversely found international success and, more recently, feature-length animations by Aardman have proved to be worldwide box-office hits. However the title of most successful British comedy of all-time has a new champion: Borat. Featuring original interviews with Simon Pegg, Mark Gatiss, Terry Gilliam, Nick Park and Peter Lord.